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SaaS dependencies: the blind spot in your Incident response plan

So let's talk about the incidents that weren't yours to fix. It's 12:26 UTC on August 14, 2026. Outbound email starts bouncing. Inbound messages from partners stop arriving. Your team checks the obvious things first: mail server logs, recent deploys, firewall rules, your own DNS zone records. Everything on your side looks clean. By 12:48 UTC, an Early Warning Signal by StatusGator has already flagged a spike in reports pointing at Proofpoint. But if you're not watching for that signal, you don't know it exists yet.
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Eliminate Data Transfer Fees from Your AWS Log Costs

As businesses generate, capture, and seek to analyze more data than ever before, they often find themselves limited by high data storage costs, expensive data processing fees, and high management overhead. For organizations who wish to expand their log analytics programs and become more data-driven, maximizing cost efficiency has become a critical operational objective.

Observability Masterclass | Trust Before Autonomy: A Framework for AI in Observability

How to Prepare for Human-in-the-Loop AI in Observability AI is rapidly reshaping IT operations, but pushing forward blindly introduces massive risks. To scale automation safely, your teams need the right foundation in place. Join SolarWinds experts for a tactical session on how to strengthen data quality, eliminate tool fragmentation, and establish clear governance guardrails. Discover how to confidently transition from human-managed workflows to safe, guided AI autonomy.

Cribl On Your Coffee Break Episode 1

In this first episode (or at least the first REAL episode, yesterday’s “episode 0” doesn’t count) of Cribl on your coffee break, Leon does what we all do when we unwrap a shiny new data, telemetry, observability, or monitoring tool: He takes the shortest path to jamming some data into that thing and seeing what it looks like. Is it sophisticated? Nuanced? Well-thought-out? Hell no! But it scratches an itch. There will be time to do more real-world stuff tomorrow.

Smarter Device Refresh Decisions with Teneo Managed Digital Employee Experience (DEX)

How do you know which employee devices really need to be replaced? Teneo Managed Digital Employee Experience (DEX) gives IT teams the visibility and data they need to make smarter device refresh decisions based on actual device health and user experience.

AI gross margin: how AI spend hits SaaS profitability

AI gross margin is what remains of SaaS profitability after inference, model routing, and AI infrastructure land in cost of revenue. The numbers have moved. AI products averaged 45% gross margin in 2025 and are projected near 53% in 2026, against the 70% to 85% that SaaS built its valuations on. The compression is real, measurable, and manageable for companies that can see their cost to serve.

Shipped: Smarter period comparisons in Explorer

Compare Periods launched with two display modes: Aligned and Overlay. The top request from customers was bringing back a true side-by-side view, the kind where two independent charts sit next to each other so you can compare the overall shape of each period. Split brings that back. But the team also added Delta, a new mode that shows the dollar difference between periods.

Why Most Enterprise AI Agent Programs Overspend, and What Actually Fixes It

Enterprise AI agent programs overspend because leaders optimize token costs, which represent just 20-25% of variable run costs. Human oversight accounts for 70-75%. The real fix is reducing exception rates and embedding governance directly into agent execution from the start.

How Bits Database Optimization proves a query rewrite is faster

A frequently encountered issue when exploring database optimizations is proving that a proposed query rewrite is actually faster than the existing query. Often, proving this isn’t just as simple as running both queries and comparing their execution times. When your hot queries are measured in milliseconds, factors such as cache states, concurrent queries competing for CPU and I/O, and noisy neighbors can mask the true performance difference between query versions.